Building construction



Aug. 7, 1923. 1,464,189

B. H. SIMONSON BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 8, 1921 liivrrze B. HUSTACE SIMOLLSON, OF NEW TIGER, N. Y.

- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

' Application filed September 8, 1921., Serial No. 199,269.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, B. HUSTACE SIMONSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Building Construction, of which the followin is a specification.

Til invention relates to a building of a novel type and construction, and embodying four separate houses and particularly advantageous for use upon a small plot in suburban country.

The object of my invention is to provide a building containing four individual houses, being of a more economical construction than anything heretofore known by reason of a particular arrangement of party walls, together with the elimination of much architectural embellishment usually necessarily required; also provision for the extension of the two rear houses out and beyond the line of the two front houses, so as to provide front outlook for the rear houses. This invention also provides for the utilization of a larger portion of the grounds for lawns and gardens, at a point where the greatest value, for appearance, would accrue to the plot upon which the houses stand, as well as to adjoining properties, caused by the irregular contour of the plan.

My invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts herein described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In these drawings, in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts in all views, I have shown a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a building constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan of the ground floor showing the construction and arrangement of the houses in the building and of the party walls.

Referring to these drawings, and particu larly to Figure 2, the building comprises four houses, 1, 2, 3, 4, the houses 1 and 3 being substantially identical, and the houses 2 and 4: being the reverse thereof in plan, and the houses 1 and 3 arranged substantially at right angles to each other, the houses 2 and 4; being likewise arranged substantially at right angles to each other.

The houses 1 and 2 being the reverse of each other, and having the abutting sides in common, are separated by a party wall 5, and the pair of houses 3 4 have as their rear walls a party wall 6 in common. The houses 1 and 3 have a party wall in common forming the back of the house 1 and part of the side of the house 3, and similarly the houses 2 and 4 have a party wall 8 serving as a back Wall of the house 2 and a part of the side wall of the house 4.

As indicated in Figure l, the building is designed to occupy the center of a small plot, all of the houses having the doorways isolated and facing toward the street it desired, so that each one of the four houses has its own individual entrance. By reason of the arrangement of the houses a and 3 at right-angles to the houses 2 and 1 respectively, the identical plan of the houses 1 and 2 may be carried out in houses 3 and 4c; and since the houses are preferably longer than they are wide, a portion of each of the rear houses 3 and 4: extends beyond the front houses 1, 2, so as to give an exposure toward the street.

The buildings are designed to permit of being placed on small plots, having lawns and gardens on each side of the houses 1 and 2 extending back to the extended portion of houses 3 and 4 which face toward the street.

While the plan of the individual houses may be varied at will, I have shown a convenient and simple arrangement embodying a living room 9 of large size, part of which may be used for dining purposes, or the verandah 10 may be enclosed and used as a dining room. The kitchen 11 may be entered by back door 12, and has a doorway 13 leading to the verandah or dining room 10, and another doorway 14 leading to the living room 9 for access to the front door 15. The houses 1, 2 have a chimney 16 in common, which, in the particular plan shown, houses 3 and 4 have individual chimneys 17, 18, although the invention permits of a single central chimney for all four houses arranged at the junction of the party walls if desired and if the room layout is altered to correspond.

All four houses may be supplied from a single heating apparatus (not shown) and many economies can obviously be efi'ected in the heating, water, and gas piping, and electric distribution, in addition to the simplification of the exterior of the building over any previous construction of building embodying four individual houses.

Havm now described my invention I claim an desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A building comprising four houses,

' two of said housesbeing the reverse of each other and having a side part wall in common, the other two houses ing substantially identical. with the first mentioned houses and arranged at right-angles thereto, with a back party wall in common, said back party wall forming a continuation of the said side party wall, the rear wall of each of the first mentioned houses being a party wall in common with a side wall of one of the latter houses.

2. A building comprising a pair of houses one the reverse of the other, having a com-v mon side party wall and a air of houses one the reverse of the other aving a common back party wall, the one party wall being a continuation of the other.

3. A building comprising a pair of houses one the reverse of the other, having a common side party wall and a pair of houses one the reverse of the other having a common back party wall, the one party wall bemg a continuation of the other, and the back wall of each of the being a party wall in common with a side wall of one of the second pair.

4. .A building comprising a pair of houses one the reverse of the other, havin a common side party wall, and a pair 0 similar houses, one the reverse of the other arranged at substantially right-angles to the first named houses and having a common back party wall, the one party wall being a continuation of the other.

first pair of houses 5. A building comprising a pair of houses 7 one the reverse of the other having a common side party wall, and a pair of similar houses, one the reverse of the other substantially at right-angles to the first named houses and having a common back party wall, extending in part beyond the line of the first mentioned pair of houses, giving to the rear houses a side or portion facing front, to the street.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

B. HUSTACE SIMONSON. 

